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Ending welfare as we knew it has required ever-more-diligent research on policies to reduce poverty and on outcomes for children.
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The policy brief series Older Americans' Economic Security examines the challenges that aging Americans face as the near retirement.
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Janine M. Zweig, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center, is an author of "Addressing Sexual Violence in Prisons: A National Snapshot of Approaches and Highlights of Innovative Strategies."
The development and use of models, surveys, cost-benefit and trend analyses help Urban Institute researchers gauge policy proposals' probable impacts on people's lives, as well as costs to government.
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